Securing a modern Web application with Entra ID

Overview

Adding OpenID Connect/OAuth authentication to a modern Web application can be hard. The authentication protocols are not simple. And some of the quirks of Entra ID don't make it any easier. In this presentation, we will walk through what happens when you authenticate to a Web application using Entra ID authentication. Then we will add Entra ID authentication to a front-end single page application and its back-end API. We will look at how to configure the Microsoft authentication libraries on both ends and what the critical settings are.

Speaker

Joonas Westlin

Azure Architect/Developer and Azure MVP at Zure Ltd

Joonas has been working with Microsoft technologies as a hobby since the first version of .NET framework. Currently he works as a software developer at Zure, a company specializing in developing software on Microsoft Azure using its PaaS offerings. He is one of the 6 Azure MVPs in Finland. Joonas is currently the global #1 for Entra ID answers on Stack Overflow (and #6 for Azure overall).